The Byzantine army was among the most powerful and effective military forces in the world from the 7th to the 12th centuries/ ...

Archaeological excavations in Turkey that began in 2004 have yielded a unique historical treasure — 37 shipwrecks from the Byzantine Empire, eight of which are now described in a new report. The ...

The ruins of Byzantine culture in Constantinople in today's Istanbul remind the world of the great Byzantine Empire of ...

The destruction of the Byzantine Empire and its dramatic collapse under the weight of Mehmed the Conquerer’s spectacular invasion is not necessarily the first or only catastrophe staining the history ...

During the past century, the tiny, inbred academic field of Byzantine Studies was dominated by professors of British, French, or Slavic heritage. More recently, a generation of young scholars with ...

When students of grand strategy search the past for lessons, rarely do they look to the Byzantine Empire. Luttwak, who wrote a well-regarded history of the grand strategy of ancient Rome, thinks this ...

The Byzantium Empire was the longest lasting empire in the western world. It was inaugurated in 330 A.D. when Roman Emperor Constantine the Great moved the capital of the Empire from Rome to Byzantium ...

The textbooks say the Byzantine Empire was a theocratic autocracy uniting church and state under an all-powerful emperor believed by the Byzantines to be God’s viceroy and vicar. Nonsense, says ...

This short tells a story about what would happen if Byzantine Empire came back today? With Greece wanting to reunite the ...

From Charlottesville to the Capitol, medieval imagery has been repeatedly on show at far-right rallies and riots in recent years. But amid all the expected Viking imagery and nods to the Crusaders has ...